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To: DiogenesLamp
What year was the Draft riots in New York?

The draft riots were not about Irish immigrants being impressed into the army straight off the boats, since they were not citizens.

They clearly show the Northern portion of the Union was benefiting more from slavery than the Southern portion was. Most of the money produced by slavery ended up in both New York and Washington DC.

No amount of you repeating this is going to make anyone believe it.

839 posted on 05/14/2019 1:44:10 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
The draft riots were not about Irish immigrants being impressed into the army straight off the boats, since they were not citizens.

I'll have to check on your claim that they weren't drafting them as soon as they got here. "Off the boats" may have been a creative way to put it that is close enough.

In any case, if there were riots, i'm pretty sure the Irish were involved.

No amount of you repeating this is going to make anyone believe it.

Because they don't want to. Not because it isn't true, but precisely because it is.

People want to believe what they want to believe, and even though you can show them the numbers in black and white, they still don't want to see it because it just "can't be true! It just can't!"

This is commonly known as "denial."

842 posted on 05/14/2019 4:22:34 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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